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“Bastiat was indeed a lucid and superb writer, whose brilliant and witty essays and fables to this day are remarkable and devastating demolitions of protectionism and of all forms of government subsidy and control. He was a truly scintillating advocate of an untrammeled free market.” ~ Murray Rothbard Frederic Bastiat was born in the south of France on June 30, 1801. It was during the Napoleonic Wars that he awoke to a world wrought with strife and terror at the coming of a new age. In his youth he saw the loss of both his mother and father. He then...

The Bastiat Institute is proud to announce the launch of our new Liberty.me publishing site. We promote free-market economics in all its forms through our network, which includes over 100,000 social media “likes” and “follows” from the US, Brazil, Vietnam, and dozens of other countries. Our focus on Liberty.me will be to publish Bastiat works and material relevant to the tradition, as well as insightful commentary by leading Austrian economists. We’ll also be working with Liberty.me to release the Bastiat Collection, a series of 25 classic works that will feature original forwards. The Institute was recently joined by acclaimed economist Robert Murphy and...